On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:58, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Moore > > Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:07 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Sendmail masquerading configuration > > > > > > Hi, > > I'm hoping someone can help me with this. > > > > I want to make sendmail (on a 5.3-Release server) leave the > > host name out of > > the sender address when sending mail from that machine. > > I.E. mail from root currently has a sender address of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], I > > want it to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. > > Not possible, I think, as I recall masquerading only works on > users not in the T macro. (ie: Trusted Users) root is > most definitely in this macro.
I guess even if I redirect root's mail to another user & forward that to my account on the ISP's server, it wouldn't work for the same reason. > Masquerading is a bullshit way of doing this kind of > thing anyhow. Use the -f switch if your calling the sendmail > binary directly from programs. If your using /bin/mail > as a MUA, then get a better one like Elm or Pine that > lets you do this. It's mail from cron, periodic etc. that I want to redirect to my work email account, so i can tell if my server is still alive when I'm on holidays. This wasn't a problem until a few days ago when our ISP started blocking mail with a hostname attached. Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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